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it is mine

redwana — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:34:33 GMT

it is mine

Portrait of Nefertiti from the Armana Period of Egyptian Art
This image has been restored
In photoshop

This portrait famous in all of the world for its beauty was created in Armana during the reign of Akhenaten. The richness of the art from this period is also represented by the artifacts from the Tomb of Tutenkamen which is the only tomb of a pharaoh found totally intact.

Semitic Nomads arrive in Egypt 1895 BCE

Israel promises Palestinians a Holocaust

redwana — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:00:36 GMT

Israel promises Palestinians a Holocaust

(جـــــرح الطفولة )

(لوعـــــــــــــــــة أب )

(صرخـــــــــــــــــــــــــــة أم )

بندقية مصوبة نحو البراءة

(نساء الصمـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــود)

(أبناء الخوف)

(جيش الحريم ..يصطاد الحريم )

what Destiny ....what Choice....??

redwana — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:49:50 GMT

what Destiny ....what Choice....??

YOU didnt choose your birthday ..,your parents .., your nationality ., your language..,your gender.., your color.., your day of death..

BUT you have the ability to coose your actions..

you could perform certain action with your hands or your legs or your eyes , and so on..every part of your body has the power to do something ..some action .

the power of choice which you have been gifted to form your behaviour ,it is implied that you are free.

MAN IS FREE...nothing external is pushing him to do things in certain way , except his own choice _ his own iraadah.

but our destiny is written ..i mean ..ALLAH has the knowledge of every thing ..every action has been done or will be done..He knows that ''Jack'' will get marrired on saterday ...'Omar'' will be killed in that place.. ''laura'' will get good position ..in that company..ALLAH KNOWS EVERY THING...

and every thing is written..but one question will be raised in our mind ..if GOD has written for me , say , that i will be killer..then why does He punish me??

mm ..that a puzzeling question..but you must know that theres adifference between ''choice'' and 'knowledge''

CHOICE .means..that you have varity of options in front of you and you have the ability to choose whatever option which is suitable for your attitudes and perceptions..

KNOWLEDGE means that ALLAH knows before the creatures..which choice we have choosen or will choose...

if we r forced to do things ..then why ALLAH orderd us to do or not to do..the idea of ''the order'' means you have ability to ''do or not to do'' you are free in act

“Allah has willed that you act based on choice.We are held responsible for choosing an act but not for creating the act itself. In other words, Allah creates the act and by our choosing it, we “acquire” it and are thereby held responsible for it. Thus, human actions are created by Allah but performed by us..

that was the definition of ''the destiny'' in islam..

and the evidence comes from QURAAN as ALLAH sayes..

about His knowledge...;

... it is He who created all things, and ordered (qadara) them in due proportions.
Surah 25 Verse 2

... With God is the Decision, in the past and in the Future...
Surah 30 Verse 4

... it is He who created all things, and ordered (qadara) them in due proportions.
Surah 25 Verse 2
God! There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth. His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory).
Surah 2 Verse 255

and what about man's ability and choice.
ALLAH sayes ...............
That man can have nothing but what he strives for;
Surah 53 Verse 39
... Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls). ...
Surah 13 Verse 11
Say: "With God is the argument that reaches home: if it had been His will, He could indeed have guided you all."
Surah 6 Verse 149
Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.
Surah 99 Verses 7 - 8

From an Islamic point of view, Man is free for all practical purposes. He/she has no excuse for making the wrong choice and then blaming qadar or fate, any more than a man punching his fist into a wall can blame the laws of nature. He knew the consequences of his actions for all practical purposes and he shouldn't expect a miracle!

The foregoing means, that we should not worry about what God has written for us, since we can never know it; but our duty, here and now, is to strive for the best in this world and the next. Then, good results will follow, insha’Allah.

Childhood and the stones

redwana — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:34:39 GMT

Childhood and the stones

before we forget.....

All your armies, All your fighters,

All your tanks and all your soldiers.
Against a boy holding a stone,
Standing there all alone.
In his eyes I see the sun,
In his smile I see the moon.
And I wonder I only wonder.
Who is weak and who is strong,
who is right and who is wrong.
And I wish I only wish.
That the truth has a tongue. (Qasem Qasem, 2000)

The boy and the tank: The picture shows an Israeli tank which marched towards a Palestinian street to crush a demonstration by the Palestinians. It sprayed the demonstrators with bullets resulting in 14 serious injuries. Then Faris Odeh (13) charged against it. Faris started throwing stones at it. Faris later on died in unrelated incident.

i will not say..pictures will say..cos the pictures are worth millions of words

الصـــــــــــــــورة التي لا أنساها أبداً ... انها الحقيقة الملطخة بالدماء ...

.. إنها .. محمدُ الدُرّة .... ..

Palestinian Courage in the Face of Occupation
فلسطينيـــن شجعان في مواجهةِ الإحتلال ..

Palestinian Boy stopped by Israeli Soldier

A Palestinian boy tries to stop an armed Israeli soldier from occupying his house.

Two Palestinian children drink out of a puddle, their only source of "drinking" water.

A Palestinian child confronts a tank from the Occupying Israeli forces, with nothing more than a stone in his hand

8 year old Nabil confronts an Israeli tank in his slippers. His father was killed 2 years ago by Israeli soldiers.

Two weeks after this picture was taken, Israeli forces killed Nabil, with a sniper firing into his head.

http://www.alqassam.ps/vb3/showthrea...=5678#post5678

A child looks on while his father shows his identity papers to an Israeli soldier before they can continue on their way.

Palestinian families wait to show their identity cards to an Israeli soldier at one of the many flying checkpoints set up around Palestinian cities.

Israeli policies such as closure and destruction of property have had a devastating effect on living standards in Palestine. By 2003, over 60% of the population was living under a poverty line of $2 a day.

Palestinian children adapt their games, in spite of the devastation around them.

Palestinian boys take a last look and kiss 11-month-old Hoda Shalof, who was killed after an Israeli tank shelled her home in Rafah refugee in Spring, 2002.

This poster, designed to raise awareness about violations of children's rights in Jerusalem, was prepared for the Jerusalem Day Conference, held in Amman, Jordan in October 2003.

Over 50% of the Palestinian population are under 18, but the proximity of conflict means that many children are politicized from an early age and are forced to grow up earlier than their counterparts in other parts of the world. One of the consequences is that opportunities to play and have fun are rare.

Palestinian children put on a smile for the camera.

Children help to set up a new home in tents after the destruction of their homes

Boy running through smoke

Young Palestinians take on Israeli tanks with stones and leftover rubble before running for cover.

Thousands of Palestinian families have lost their homes as a result of Israel's policy of demolishing houses as a form of collective punishment against the families of activists & others.

Children come together to light memorial candles for the dead.

Since September 2000, over 2,500 children have been arrested by Israeli troops, police and special forces. All of these minors are subject to military regulations, held in military camps or prisons and tried by military courts.

Closures, violence and the destruction of property constitute the principal threats to education in Palestine today. In 2002, children lost an average one month of a nine month school year due to the unrest.

DCI data indicates that the youngest age category of children 0-8, are the principal victims of house demolitions.

Every day thousands of Palestinian children p*** checkpoints, military vehicles and personnel on their way to school.

An Israeli soldier yells at a Palestinian child to turn back at the Kalandia checkpoint on 22 May 2002, as he attempts to head from Jerusalem in the direction of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
AFP PHOTO/ Atef Safadi

In March-April 2002, Israeli forces invaded major West Bank cities and towns and established direct control over much of the Palestinian population. The devastation and violence used in these attacks were unprecedented. The devastation wreaked on Jenin camp (pictured right) has become a watchword for Israel's disproportionate use of force in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

A child takes the playful approach with an Israeli soldier.

A Palestinian teacher carries a visually impaired student across a U.N. run rehabilitation centre which was damaged by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on 6 March 2002.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

A Palestinian boy looks through a wall of a Palestinian police post destroyed by the Israeli army at the northern entrance of the West Bank town of Ramallah on 27 July 2001.
AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Pain

A Palestinian girl flashes the V-sign behind a shattered window in the West Bank town of Hebron on 13 July 2001.
AFP PHOTO/EMMANUEL PAIN

A Palestinian boy displays a piece of an Israeli shell in the West Bank town of Hebron on 13 July 2001. Israeli tanks launched a pre-dawn raid into the Palestinian-controlled area, shelling buildings and leaving 17 people wounded, after one Jewish settler was killed and five wounded.
AFP PHOTO/ Emmanuel Pain

A Palestinian girl waves her flag from her balcony overlooking the street.

Palestinians run for cover as Israeli soldiers open fire during clashes in the West Bank town Nablus on 25 March 2001.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

DCI/PS prepared this poster during the first months of the second Intifada to raise awareness regarding the m***ive increase in Israeli violations of Palestinian children*s rights, in particular violations of the right to life and security.

Four year old George Nazzal points at his bicycle in his bedroom in the Palestinian town of Beit Jala on 23 October 2000. His home was destroyed during an Israeli raid on Beit Jala.
AFP PHOTO/ Andre Durand.

Two Palestinian boys look towards an Israeli Army outpost at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip on 8 October 2000.

http://www.dci-pal.org/english/home.cfm

we prefer not to speak..but a stone can say thaousands of words....

sweet silence...or bitter truth????

what Destiny ....what Choice....??

redwana — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:52:22 GMT